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Animal Farm - Term Papers

Animal Farm

by George Orwell
George Orwell's novel does an excellent job of drawing
parallels from the situation leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
is a satire that uses its characters to symbolize leaders of
the Russian Revolution. The animals of "Manor Farm", the setting of this
novel, which symbolizes Russia, overthrow their human master after years
of mistreatment. Led by the pigs, the farm animals continue to do their
work, only with more pride, knowing that they are working for themselves,
as opposed to working for their human master, Farmer Jones. Slowly over
time the pigs gain power and take advantage of the other animals. They
gain so much power that they become just as power ...

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about hope
and the future. He is the main animal who got the rebellion started even
though he died before it actually began. Old Major's role compares to
Lenin and Marx whose ideas would spark the communist revolution. Lenin
became the leader and teacher of the working class in Russia, and their
determination to struggle against capitalism. Like Old Major, Lenin and
Marx wrote essays and gave speeches to the working class poor. The
working class in Russia, as compared with the barnyard animals in Animal
Farm, were a laboring class of people that received low wages for their
work. Old major tells the animals that the source of the problem is man,
they must overthrow man to abolish tyranny and hunger. Soon Old Major
does die, but his words still echo in the hearts of all the animals. With
the leadership of the pigs, the smartest animals, they repel against the
human and gain complete control of the farm. This would symbolize the
Russian Revolution.
Another parallel ...

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Added: 8/29/2008 01:30:30 PM
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